Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, megan thompson. Thompson good evening and thank you for joining us. The longestserving member of congress, 88yearold john conyers of michigan, announced today hes giving up his post as top democrat on the house Judiciary Committee, but he wont resign. The move follows last weeks disclosure by buzzfeed that conyers settled a Sexual Harassment claim by a former staff member in 2015 with a confidential 27,000 payment. The House Ethics Committee is now investigating the payment. Conyers denies the allegations. Conyers said today in a statement i cannot in good conscience allow these charges to un
After authorities there raised the threat of a volcanic eruption to the highest level that means it could happen in the next 2a hours. The volcano in question is mount agung. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the exclusion zone. There are fears of a full scale eruption for the First Time Since 1963 when about sixteen hundred people were killed. Tiffany wertheimer has the latest. Indonesians are used to sights like this. Mount agung has rumbled back to life, once again spewing black ash high into the sky. But now the danger level has increased. Volcanologists say a powerful eruption is imminent, within 2a hours. Mount agungs danger alert has been increased to four, the highest level. The evacuation zone has been extended to ten kilometres. Translation the activity of mount agung has entered the magmatic eruption phase. Although its still spewing ash at the moment, we need to monitor it and exercise caution for the possibility for a strong explosive eruption. Its this thick as
New industrial strategy later today with the aim of kicks darting the economy in the run up to brexit. Kickstarting. It will focus on major sectors the government thinks the country is good at, but needs more investment. It will look at boosting Life Sciences like pharmaceuticals. The government says its already secured investment of up to 1 billion pounds by the Drugs Company msd, known as merck in the us. Advance manufacturing, like 3 d printing, will also come in for special attention, as will britains Creative Industries such as movie and tv production. Nuclear power will also be part of the strategy. And the government wants to make sure the country leads the field in the production of low emission vehicles. With me isjonathan portes, professor of economics at Kings College london. Good to see you again. What do you make of the industrial strategy . think the basic philosophy, the idea we should pick, not individualfirms but broad factors that we are good at and concentrate on sho
Review on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Tell us what you think about the stories we are covering. What is happening where you are . Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. We begin the programme on the indonesian island of bali, which has shut its airport this morning after authorities there raised the threat of a volcanic eruption to the highest level that means it could happen in the next 2a hours. The volcano in question is mount agung. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the exclusion zone. There are fears of a full scale eruption for the First Time Since 1963 when about 1,600 people were killed. Andrew plant has the latest. Balis most secret mountain, an ancient volcano rumbling back to life with billows of black smoke. No one has been sleeping for more than half a century. Now awake and angry. Experts believe a major eruption could be about to happen. Translation the volcano has entered the magnetic eruptio
Critical for their economy, isnt it, where tourism is one of the most the biggest generators off economic growth. Absolutely, it will have a large impact on the economy. Tell us about iceland, because, in 2010, the situation with volcanic ash, i mean, it was enormous at the time, i remember it really well, went on for many days. It did, it had an impact on the whole traffic in europe, really, notjust around iceland. Flights were just halted everywhere, so it had an impact outside of iceland on other tourism operators. It didnt last very long, the whole eruption completely, you know, no flight zone, but it did in fa ct know, no flight zone, but it did in fact the Tourism Industry in iceland at the time, 2010. What happened following that is that after they saw what happened, the government launched a push on tourism, so following from that, slightly oddly, you can see a Tipping Point for iceland, even though the Tourism Industry was not very big at the time, we were hoping for it to hel